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The Future of Black Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry edited by len lawson, gary jackson, and cynthia manick An anthology of poems and art exploring Afrofuturism, science fiction, and specula- tive fiction by Black writers and writers of color.

The expansion of Marvel and DC Com- ics’ characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of po- etry in this genre—receiving wide literary and popular attention.

This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse POETRY 9781949467673 • Pub Date: 11/2/21 within this growing tradition, including US $20.95 Trade paper • 210 Pages Terrance Hayes, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Red- 6” x 9” • E-book available mond, Tracy K. Smith, Teri Ellen Cross Da- vis, Joshua Bennett, Douglas Kearney, Tara MARKETING PLANS Betts, Frank X Walker, and others. In addi- •Events in editors’ hometowns in Brooklyn, NY, tion, the anthology will also feature the work and South Carolina •Appearances (virtual or physical) at comic of artists such as John Jennings and Najee conferences, featuring artists and poets Dorsey, showcasing their interpretations of •Goodreads Giveaways superheroes, Black comic characters, Afro- futuristic images from the African diaspora. gary jackson is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf, 2010), which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including Callaloo, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Crab Orchard Review. len lawson is the author of Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and coeditor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His website is www.lenlawson.co. cynthia manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), which won the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, and editor of Soul Sister Revue: A Po- etry Compilation ( Jamii Publishing, 2019). She has received fellowships from Cave Ca- nem, Hedgebrook, and MacDowell Colony. Her website is www.cynthiamanick.com. 3 What Makes You Think You’re Awake? Stories maegan poland Winner of the Bakwin Award. Final contest judge and award-winning au- thor Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties) described the work as “a wonderful debut; a collection of frank, funny, and heartbreaking stories that delve into the mire of human lone- liness.”

Poland’s stories usher in a world where mortal fear, the threat of violation, and the body’s looming betrayal drive us to look beyond surface appearances. In these sto- FICTION 9781949467505 • Pub Date: 6/1/21 ries, readers will find: a mosquito-borne US $17.95 Trade paper • 264 Pages illness invading a small southern town, 5” x 7” • E-book available forcing its inhabitants to negotiate their lust against the threats of virus-induced MARKETING PLANS paralysis; a pair of newlyweds on their •Tour or virtual events on East Coast honeymoon at a luxury resort whose au- •SIBA, NAIBA, and regional bookseller conferences •Book festivals tomated services quickly turn menacing; •Reprints of stories in online journals a woman whose backyard shed freezes •Galleys available time, forcing her to decide between her •Social media and other online promotion related to need for love and her need for escape. winning of Bakwin Award Poland’s stories move among richly imag- ined landscapes, bringing to life the deep loneliness at the heart of the modern con- dition and the ephemerality of the bridges we build against the dark. maegan poland teaches creative writing and composition at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She received her PhD in English from the University of Nevada, Las Ve- gas, where her work was supported by a Black Mountain Institute fellowship. She also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi, as well as a BFA in writing for screen and television from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar. Her fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, Pleiades, Beloit Fiction Journal, Juked, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. She has received a special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology, a Tin House scholarship, and a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is currently working on a novel. 4 The Gods of Green County A Novel The mary elizabeth pope In 1926 rural Green County, Arkansas, GODS OF cotton and poverty reign. Coralee Harper hopes for a family and a place in her com- munity, but when her brother Buddy is GREEN killed by the sheriff, she can’t recover from the injustice of his loss. When she begins COUNTY to spot her dead brother around town, she wonders—is she clairvoyant, mistaken, or is she losing her mind?

a novel What Coralee can’t fathom are the forces that threaten her and the very fabric of the town: Leroy Harrison, an ambitious law- MARY ELIZABETH POPE yer who makes a horrible mistake, landing him a judgeship and a guilty conscience; a FICTION preacher and his snake-handling parish- 9781949467710 • Pub Date: 10/5/21 ioners; the women of the town who are a US $25.95 Hardback • 300 Pages jury for Coralee’s behavior; Sheriff Slocum 5.5” x 8.5” • E-book available who rules the county; and finally, Coralee’s husband, who must balance his work at the MARKETING PLANS cotton gin with his fight for family and •Virtual and (if possible) in-person tour in eight cities (surrounding setting of novel and Coralee’s life. author’s hometown, Boston) •Events connecting University of Iowa alumni When Coralee ends up in a sanity hearing and Pope’s writing students before Judge Leroy Harrison, the judge •Regional trade show appearances must decide both Coralee’s fate and his own. •Goodreads Giveaways The events following his decision draw him •Companion articles on craft in online literary websites more deeply into the sheriff ’s far-reaching sphere of influence, and show him how power can destroy women and corrupt men, even—and especially—himself. mary elizabeth pope grew up in Michigan with roots deep in the Missouri Bootheel and Northeast Arkansas. She is a professor of English at Emmanuel College in Boston. She is the author of Divining Venus: Stories, and her work has been featured in the lit- erary magazines Arkansas Review, Florida Review, Bellingham Review, Ascent, Passages North, and Fugue, among others. She holds a Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Iowa. She lives outside Boston with her husband.

5 To Drink from the Well The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University geeta n. kapur; foreword by rev. dr. william j. barber ii Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina.

The University of North Carolina is the old- est public university in the US, with the cor- nerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people who would literally build that struc- ture were not acknowledged; they were not even present. In fact, 158 years passed before HISTORY 9781949467529 • Pub Date: 8/31/21 Black students were admitted to this uni- US $19.95 Trade paper • 385 Pages versity in Chapel Hill, and it was another 6” x 9” • E-book available 66 years after that before students forcibly removed the long-criticized Confederate MARKETING PLANS “Silent Sam” monument. Indeed, this uni- • Articles and promotion in higher education versity, revered in the state and the nation, periodicals • Local and regional medias has been entwined with white supremacy • Soliciting blurbs from prominent former and institutional racism throughout its his- UNC athletes tory—and the struggle continues today. • Pitching for community reads in college towns, especially in NC geeta n. kapur is a seasoned civil rights and criminal defense lawyer who has devoted her career to defending poor and oppressed racial minorities. Kapur was the lead pro bono lawyer for the North Carolina’s NAACP Moral Monday protests, led by Rev- erend William Barber, and received the prestigious North Carolina NAACP’s Hu- manitarian of the Year Award for her service. She has argued landmark constitutional cases before the North Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. She has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers Association as one of the top 100 criminal defense lawyers in North Carolina. She trained lawyers to respond to the mass protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the police murder of Keith Scott. Kapur has taught an innovative pilot course on race and law at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Campbell Law School in Raleigh. She is a native of Kenya and currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.

6 Fight Songs A Story of Love and Sports in a FIGHT Complicated South ed southern

SONGS Ed Southern, lifelong fan of the Wake A STORY OF Forest University Demon Deacons, the LOVE AND SPORTS smallest school in the NCAA’s Power 5, IN A set out to tell the story of how he got COMPLICATED tangled, in vines of history and hap- penstance, with the two giants of his SOUTH favorite sport: the Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers. He set out to tell how a North Carolina native crossed the shifty, unmarked border between Tobacco Road and the Deep South. He set out to tell how the legendary Paul ED SOUTHERN “Bear” Bryant, from beyond the grave, introduced him to his wife, a Birming- ham native and die-hard Alabama fan.

SPORTS & RECREATION While he was writing that story, though, 9781949467697 • Pub Date: 9/7/21 2020 came along. Suddenly his ques- US $25.95 Hardback • 325 Pages tions had a new and urgent focus: Why 6” x 9” • E-book available do sports mean so much that so many will play and watch them in the face MARKETING PLANS of a global pandemic? How have the •SIBA conference •Tour of 12 NC stores and events in Alabama South’s histories shaped its fervor for •Appearances on sports radio and podcasts college sports? Why has this fervor not •Pitches to college sports media outlets led to a full embrace of racial equality? How have college sports shaped how southerners construct their identities, priorities, and allegiances—and how, in particular, do sports aff ect the southern white male identity? ed southern is the author of Th e Jamestown Adventure, Voices of the American Revo- lution in the Carolinas, and the short-story collection Parlous Angels. His work has ap- peared in South Writ Large, the Asheville Poetry Review, storySouth, the NC 10x10 Play Festival, and elsewhere. Since 2008, he has been the executive director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. He lives in Winston-Salem.

7 Bearwallow A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland jeremy b. jones Jones’ memoir of moving back to the Blue Ridge Moun- tains to land where his family has lived for over 200 years, now in paperback.

“A deeply satisfying memoir of one man’s exile from and return to his Appalachian homeland.”—Ron Rash

Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a house above the creek, on family land of 200 years. Jones teaches school BIOGRAPHY/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY 9781949467543 and sets out to understand how this place shaped its peo- Pub Date: 5/25/21 ple—how it shaped him. He meshes narrative and myth, US $17.95 Trade paper geology and genealogy in his exploration of the changing 288 Pages and oft-stigmatized world of Appalachia, and particularly 5.5” x 8.5” mystical Bearwallow Mountain. E-book available

Woodsmoke Poems wayne caldwell Woodsmoke is a poetry collection that renders the expe- rience of living out life in a single, exquisite place—“in the shadow of the mountain my father said was mother to us all”—the Pisgah Forest in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains of North Carolina. Wayne Caldwell, author of the novel Cataloochee, brings us the waning days of Posey Green, who cuts his own fi rewood, looks after himself, and tends to the land where his wife Birdie and her POETRY people are buried. Posey’s colloquial narrative poetry is 9781949467390 presented as found verse, conjured from Posey’s inter- Pub Date: 2/23/21 nal musings—and these poems alternate with those of a US $18.95 Trade Paper 96 Pages new neighbor, a sympathetic female poet who observes 5.25” x 8” Posey and his surroundings and creates a more formal E-book available poetic record of his days.

8 Exploring North Carolina’s Lookout Towers A Guide to Hikes and Vistas peter j. barr; photographs by kevin adams TRAVEL Pub Date: 4/20/21 Hardback: 9781949467598 • US $39.95 Trade paper: 9781949467550• US $29.95 450 Pages • 8” x 10” E-book available MARKETING PLANS •Extensive author events in Blue Ridge Mountain areas •In-person and virtual events with forestry and hiking organizations •Outreach to nature/hiking maga- zines and online media •Outreach to regional tourism organi- zations and media •Outreach to national and regional park systems and media

A hiking guide and photography book on North Carolina’s lookout towers.

In the 1920s and 1930s, forestry organizations built dozens of lookout structures in western North Carolina as the backbone of a firefighting system. Many of these look- outs survive in North Carolina today—they represent some of the best destinations for hikers who want to see the incredible vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Part hiking guide and part photography collection, this book contains wonderful stories about the history and folklore of the lookouts and their fire lookout inhabitants, a detailed guide of hikes to each, and details about the views at the top—all provided by a local, long- term land preservationist and lookout fanatic, Peter J. Barr. Barr’s text is augmented by the amazing full-color photographs of well-known nature photographer Kevin Adams (North Carolina Waterfalls). peter j. barr is an accomplished hiker and preservationist. He served as Conserving Carolina’s Trails Director for a decade. kevin adams is a naturalist, teacher, photographer, and author of nine books, includ- ing the bestselling North Carolina Waterfalls.

9 Helping Our World Get Well Helping Our World Get Well COVID COVID Vaccines VACCINES beth bacon; illustrated by kary lee After months of wearing masks, washing hands, and social distancing, kids have another way to help during the COVID-19 pandemic: they need to get a vaccine. With one little prick, kids can get protection from the virus and, in turn, help protect their family, their friends, and their community. In straightforward language, this

written by Beth Bacon  illustrated by Kary Lee books explains to kids how vaccines will help us rid the world of COVID-19 and how they have a role to play CHILDREN’S in that mission. 32 Pages • 8” x 10” • E-book available • Pub Date: 9/14/21

English Hardback: 9781949467734 • US $24.00

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COVID-19 Helpers A story for kids about the coronavirus and the people helping during the 2020 pandemic beth bacon; illustrated by kary lee Here’s a book that provides children honest yet positive information about Coronavi- rus (Covid-19). Covid-19 Helpers gives kids the facts of the pandemic, but also offers hope. Mr. Rogers said that when things get scary, “Look for the helpers.” Likewise, this story reassures children and parents that many people from all walks of life—including kids themselves—are helping to fight the virus. In Covid-19 Helpers, Kary Lee’s beau- tiful illustrations and Beth Bacon’s clear, comforting words help children understand that though they may feel isolated in these times, they are not alone.

CHILDREN’S CHILDREN’S 36 Pages 40 Pages 8” x 10” 8” x 10” E-book available E-book available

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10 What If Wilhelmina A Story of Imagination Run Wild joseph belisle

Wilhelmina, the world’s most beloved pet cat, is missing. Or is she? This boldly illustrated adventure features one very worried girl, two frayed dads, a backyard of perils, and sneaky references to great JUVENILE FICTION works of art. Based on a true story, a real 9781949467413 family, and a real cat named Wilhelmina. Pub Date: 3/2/21 US $17.95 Hardback 38 Pages 11” x 8.5” E-book available

Wild Geese Flying deborah van dyken illustrated by jamison ipock

A little boy named Alex learns about the wild geese who fly in the sky over the coastal waters of North Carolina.

By day, his grandfather introduces him to the traditional art of carving decoys of ducks and geese in his workshop, and by JUVENILE FICTION night, the geese take Alex on a fantasti- 9781949467574 Pub Date: 4/20/21 cal adventure. US $17.95 Hardback 32 Pages 11” x 8.5” E-book available

11 The Baddest Girl on the Planet heather frese

Winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize

Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Caroli- na and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours—ca- reer snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child—not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. Evie is not plucky, but when life’s FICTION changes smash over her like the rough surf of the local 9781949467161 shoreline, she muddles through—until that moment of Pub Date: 3/2/21 US $25.95 Hardback loss and longing when muddling will no longer suffice. 250 Pages This is the story of what the baddest girl on the planet 5.5” x 7.5” must find in herself when a bag of pastries, a new lov- E-book available er, or quick trip to Vegas won’t fix anything, and when something more than casual haplessness is required. The Baddest Girl on the Planet is inventive, sharp, witty, and poignant. Readers will want to jump in and advise this baddest girl on the planet—or at least just give her a shake or a hug—at every fascinating turn.

Rules for Being Dead kim powers It’s the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies—James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother, and no one will tell him how she died. No one will tell HER either. She is floating above the trees and movie screens of McK- inney, trapped between life and death, searching for a FICTION glimpse of her final moments on this earth. The shattering 9781949467352 answer haunts Rules for Being Dead, Kim Powers’ darkly Pub Date: 8/4/20 humorous, incredibly moving novel. US $25.95 Hardback 280 Pages 5.5” x 8.5” E-book available 12 FICTION 9781949467246 “house is a master. . . Pub Date: 7/7/20 US $16.95 a writer of startling Trade Paper abilities.” 324 Pages 5.5” x 8.5” —the atl anta-journal constitution

Blair presents Silas House’s iconic Ap- palachian trilogy in beautiful new paper- back editions. The three novels, which share a common setting and some char- acters, are companion novels. Together, they form a rich tableau of life in rural mountain Kentucky in the last century.

silas house is the New York Times best- FICTION selling author of six novels, one book of 9781949467253 creative nonfiction, and three plays. Pub Date: 7/7/20 US $16.95 His writing has appeared frequently in Trade Paper 306 Pages the New York Times and has been pub- 5.5” x 8.5” lished in Time, Newsday, Garden and Gun, Oxford American, and many other places. House is the winner of an E.B. White Award, the Nautilus Award, the Intellectual Freedom Prize from the Na- tional Council of Teachers of English, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, and many other honors, as well as being long listed for the Carnegie Medal for Ex- cellence in Fiction. He teaches at Berea FICTION College and in the Spalding University 9781949467260 School of Writing. Pub Date: 7/7/20 US $16.95 Trade Paper 368 Pages 5.5” x 8.5”

13 Black Lives Matter. Black Voices Matter. Black History Matters.

black authors

All the Songs We Sing Th e Future of Black edited by lenard d. moore, edited by len lawson, introduction by jaki gary jackson, and shelton green cynthia manick 9781949467338 9781949467673 US $17.95 Trade Paper US $20.95 Trade Paper 200 Pages 210 Pages 7” x 10” 6“ x 9“ E-book available E-book available

Gullah Days Witness to Change thomas c. barnwell sybil haydel morial jr., carolyn grant, emory shaw campbell bestseller 9781949467079 9780932112835 US $21.95 Trade Paper US $17.95 Trade Paper 400Pages • 120 photos 240 Pages • B&W photos 8.5” x 9.5” 9” x 6” E-book available E-book available

14 Th e Cherokee Rose Mulberry tiya miles paulette boudreaux 9780895876768 9780932112873 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $17.95 Trade Paper 256 Pages 307 Pages 9” x 6” 8 “ x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

Soul Food Odyssey Sacrilegion stephanie l. tyson l. lamar wilson 9780895876461 bestseller US $19.95 Trade Paper 9780932112934 167 Pages US $17.95 Trade Paper 8.5” x 6” 88 Pages E-book available 9” x 7”

Well Shut My Mouth Matching Skin stephanie l. tyson shirlette ammons 9780895875471 9780932112569 $21.95 US Trade Paper US $17.95 Trade Paper 238 Pages 112 Pages 6” x 8.5” 9” x 6” E-book available

a half-red sea Breath of the Song evie shockley jaki shelton green 9780932112538 bestseller US $15.95 Trade Paper 9780932112491 96 Pages US $14.95 Trade Paper 9” x 7” 136 Pages 9” x 6”

15 Conjure Blues Th is African-American jaki shelton green Life 9780932112378 hugh b. price US $12.95 Trade Paper 9780932112811 94 Pages US $19.95 Trade Paper 9” x 6” 288 Pages 9” x 6”

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Cape Fear Rising Chained to the Land philip gerard lynette ater tanner 9781949467024 bestseller US $18.95 Trade Paper 9780895876263 432 Pages US $12.95 Trade Paper 9“ x 6“ 240 Pages E-book available 7.5” x 5“ E-book available

Gullah Culture in Far More Terrible For America Women wilbur cross patrick minges bestseller bestseller 9780895875730 9780895873231 US $18.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 288 Pages 219 Pages 9” x 6 “ 7” x 5” E-book available

Weren’t No Good Times I Was Born in Slavery horace randall andrew waters williams 9780895872746 9780895872845 US $14.95 Trade Paper US $16.95 Trade Paper 208 Pages 191 Pages 7.5” x 5” 7.5” x 5” E-book available

16 Mighty Rough Times, I We Lived in a Little Tell You Cabin in the Yard andrew sutcliffe belinda hurmence 9780895872265 9780895871183 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $13.95 Trade Paper 103 Pages 103 Pages 7.5” x 5” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

On Jordan’s Stormy Banks My Folks Don’t Want Me andrew waters To Talk About Slavery 9780895872289 belinda hurmence US $14.95 Trade Paper 9780895870391 196 Pages US $13.95 Trade Paper 7.5” x 5” 103 Pages E-book available 8” x 5.25” E-book available

Before Freedom, When I Black Indian Slave Just Can Remember Narratives belinda hurmence patrick minges 9780895870698 9780895872982 US $13.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 135 Pages 200 Pages 7.5” x 5” 7” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Gullah Days thomas c. barnwell jr., carolyn grant, emory shaw campbell 9781949467079 US $21.95 Trade Paper 400 Pages • 120 photos 8.5” x 9.5” E-book available

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Freedom Fighters and Step into the Circle Hell Raisers edited by amy greene hal crowther and trent thomson bestseller 9781949467123 9780932112781 US $31.95 Hardback US $16.95 Trade Paper 128 Pages 200 Pages 8“ x 10“ 7.3“ x 5.3“ E-book available E-book available Also available: Trade paper Also Available: 9781949467130 Hardback: 9780932112774

All Eyes Woody Durham: A Tar phoebe hoss Heel Voice 9780932112019 woody durham with US $15.95 Trade Paper adam lucas 300 Pages 9780895875778 8” x 5.5” US $26.95 Hardcover with dust jacket 272 Pages 9” x 6” E-book available

Losing My Sister Witness to Change judy goldman sybil haydel morial 9780895875839 bestseller US $21.95 9780932112835 Hardcover with dust jacket US $17.95 Trade Paper 192 Pages 240 Pages • B&W photos 8.5” x 5.5” 9” x 6” E-book available E-book available

This African-American Orlean Puckett Life karen cecil smith hugh b. price 9781887905725 9780932112811 US $14.95 Trade Paper US $19.95 Trade Paper 166 Pages 288 Pages 9” x 6” 9” x 6”

18 memoir / biography Tales From a Free-Range Childhood donald davis 9780895875099 US $18.95 Trade Paper 224 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” E-book available fiction

“SHE IS NOTHING LESS THAN MASTERLY.” NEW YORK TIMES Blue Marlin Holding On To Nothing lee smith elizabeth chiles 9781949467314 shelburne US $15.95 Trade paper 9781949467086 128 Pages US $25.95 Hardback 5“ x 7“ 262 Pages E-book available 6“ x 9“ E-book available

Any Other Place Useful Phrases for michael croley Immigrants may-lee chai 9781949467000 US $16.95 Trade Paper bestseller 240 Pages 9780932112767 8“ x 5.5“ US $16.95 Trade Paper E-book available 166 Pages 8.5“ x 5.5“ E-book available

Cape Fear Rising Beaut philip gerard donald morrill 9781949467024 9780932112743 US $18.95 Trade Paper US $16.95 Trade Paper 432 Pages 184 Pages 9“ x 6“ 8 “ x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

19 fiction The Hands of Strangers The Dark of the Island michael farris smith philip gerard bestseller 9780895876607 9780932112712 US $17.95 Trade Paper US $10.95 Trade Paper 240 Pages 119 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” 8” x 5.5“ E-book available

The Minotaur Takes His The Minotaur Takes a Own Sweet Time Cigarette Break steven sherrill steven sherrill 9780895876737 9780895876751 US $26.95 US $16.95 Trade Paper Hardcover with dust jacket 320 Pages 288 Pages 9 “ x 6” 9“ x 6“ E-book available E-book available

The Cherokee Rose Once in a Blue Moon tiya miles vicki covington 9780895876768 9780895876799 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $26.95 256 Pages Hardcover with dust jacket 9” x 6” 256 Pages E-book available 9” x 6 “ E-book available

The Drunken Spelunker’s Mulberry Guide to Plato paulette boudreaux katy giuffre 9780932112873 9780895876515 US $17.95 Trade Paper US $26.95 Trade Paper 307 Pages 240 Pages 8 “ x 5.5” 8.5“ x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

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Hola and Goodbye Midnight Bowling donna miscolta quinn dalton 9780932112644 9780932112828 US $17.95 Trade Paper US $17.95 Trade Paper 305 Pages 263 Pages 8 “ x 5.5” 8” x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

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Hatteras Light The Ice Garden philip gerard moira crone 9780895871664 9780932112965 US $12.95 Trade Paper US $18.95 Trade Paper 232 Pages 221 Pages 8.5 “ x 5.5 “ 8” x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

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All the Songs We Sing The Geography of Jazz edited by lenard d. moore, lenard d. moore introduction by jaki shelton green 9781949467307 US $16.95 Trade paper 9781949467338 82 Pages US $17.95 Trade Paper 9” x 6” 200 Pages E-book available 7” x 10” E-book available

All We Know of Pleasure Little Domesday Clock enid shomer sam witt bestseller 9780932112798 US $16.95 Trade Paper 9780932112972 114 Pages US $17.95 Trade Paper 6” x 9” 288 Pages 7.5“ x 5“ E-book available

Breath of the Song Dead on Arrival jaki shelton green jaki shelton green bestseller 9780932112385 US $10.95 Trade Paper 9780932112491 156 Pages US $14.95 Trade Paper 9” x 6” 136 Pages 9” x 6”

Sacrilegion Conjure Blues l. lamar wilson jaki shelton green bestseller 9780932112378 US $12.95 Trade Paper 9780932112934 94 Pages US $17.95 Trade Paper 9” x 6” 88 Pages 9” x 7”

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Inside the Money a half-red sea Machine evie shockley minnie bruce pratt 9780932112538 9780932112606 US $15.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 96 Pages 96 Pages 9” x 7” 9” x 6”

Binary Stars Punish honey dana koster karen leona anderson 9780932112804 9780932112583 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $14.95 Trade Paper 82 Pages 60 Pages 9” x 6” 9” x 6”

Living Above the Matching Skin Frost Line shirlette ammons nancy simpson 9780932112569 9780932112613 US $17.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 112 Pages 108 Pages 9” x 6” 9” x 6”

What Else Could It Be? Crowns of Charlotte ravi shankar lee ann brown 9780932112927 9780932112941 US $18.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 95 Pages 136 Pages 9” x 7” 9” x 6”

23 poetry Startling and Aeneas stares into her andrea selch helmet tiffany higgins 9780979062315 US $12.95 Trade Paper 9780932112576 80 Pages US $15.95 Trade Paper 9” x 6” 140 Pages 9” x 7”

The Book of Ystwyth dave bonta, callum james, andrea selch, catriona urquhart, damian walford davies, marly youmans 9780932112897 US $15.95 Trade Paper 96 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” collected narratives We Lived in a Little Chained to the Land Cabin in the Yard lynette ater tanner belinda hurmence bestseller 9780895871183 US $13.95 Trade Paper 9780895876263 103 Pages US $12.95 Trade Paper 7.5” x 5” 240 Pages E-book available 7.5” x 5“ E-book available

My Folks Don’t Want Me Before Freedom, When I To Talk About Slavery Just Can Remember belinda hurmence belinda hurmence 9780895870391 9780895870698 US $13.95 Trade Paper US $13.95 Trade Paper 103 Pages 135 Pages 8” x 5.25” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

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Far More Terrible For I Was Born in Slavery Women andrew waters patrick minges 9780895872746 bestseller US $14.95 Trade Paper 208 Pages 9780895873231 7.5” x 5” US $15.95 Trade Paper E-book available 219 Pages 7” x 5” E-book available

Prayin’ to Be Set Free On Jordan’s Stormy Banks andrew waters andrew waters 9780895872562 9780895872289 US $15.95 Trade Paper US $14.95 Trade Paper 196 Pages 196 Pages 7.5” x 5” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Mighty Rough Times, I Voices from the Trail of Tell You Tears andrew sutcliffe vicki rozema 9780895872265 9780895872715 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $14.95 Trade Paper 103 Pages 176 Pages 7.5” x 5” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Voices of Cherokee Women Cherokee Voices carolyn ross johnston vicki rozema 9780895872708 bestseller US $12.95 Trade Paper 9780895875990 180 Pages US $17.95 Trade Paper 7.5” x 5” 256 Pages E-book available 7.5” x 5” E-book available

25 collected narratives

Black Indian Slave Footsteps of the Cherokees Narratives vicki rozema patrick minges 9780895873460 9780895872982 US $21.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 396 Pages 200 Pages 8.5” x 7.5” 7” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Weren’t No Good Times No Man’s Yoke on horace randall My Shoulders williams horace randall 9780895872845 williams US $16.95 Trade Paper 9780895872852 191 Pages US $11.95 Trade Paper 7.5” x 5” 103 Pages 7.5” x 5”

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james gindlesperger Bullets and Bandages Indecent Assembly james gindlesperger gene r. nichol 9781949467420 US $29.95 Hardcover 9781949467277 BULLETS & 350 Pages US $16.95 Trade paper BANDAGES the aid stations and field 8” x 8” 140 Pages hospitals at gettysburg E-book available 5“ x 7“ E-book available

Gullah Days Gullah Culture in thomas c. barnwell jr., America carolyn grant, wilbur cross emory shaw campbell 9781949467079 bestseller US $21.95 Trade paper 9780895875730 400 Pages US $18.95 Trade Paper 120 Photos 288 Pages 8.5“ x 9.5“ 9” x 6 “ E-book available

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The Jamestown So You Think You Know Adventure Gettysburg? ed southern james and suzanne 9780895873026 gindlesperger US $17.95 Trade Paper 9780895873743 128 Pages US $19.95 Trade Paper 7.5” x 5” 188 Pages E-book available 8” x 8” E-book available

So You Think You Know So You Think You Know Gettysburg? Volume 2 Antietam? james and suzanne james and suzanne gindlesperger gindlesperger 9780895876201 9780895875792 US $19.95 Trade Paper US $19.95 Trade Paper 234 Pages 256 Pages 8” x 8 “ 8” x 8” E-book available E-book available

Arlington My C.C.C. Days james gindlesperger frank c. davis 9780895876775 9781933251233 US $24.95 Trade Paper US $12.95 Trade Paper 384 Pages 58 Pages 8” x 8” 8.5” x 5.5“ E-book available

The Life of General Voices of the American Francis Marion Revolution in the brig. gen. p. horry and Carolinas parson m. l. weems ed southern 9780895871961 9780895873583 US $15.95 Trade Paper US $18.95 Trade Paper 240 Pages 252 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

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Ironclads and Columbiads Bushwhackers william r. trotter william r. trotter 9780895870889 9780895870872 US $22.95 Trade Paper US $22.95 Trade Paper 456 Pages 338 Pages 8.5” x 5.5“ 8.5” x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

Silk Flags and Cold Steel Winston-Salem william r. trotter frank v. tursi 9780895870865 9780895871152 US $22.95 Trade Paper US $34.95 385 Pages Hardcover with dust jacket 8.5” x 5.5” 310 Pages E-book available 11” x 8.75”

travel / guidebooks North Carolina Waterfalls Great Waterfalls of kevin adams North Carolina neil regan bestseller 9781933251707 9780895876539 US $19.95 Trade Paper US $29.95 Trade Paper 160 Pages 492 Pages 8.5” x 8.5” 10” x 8”

Touring the Western Smokies Chronicle North Carolina Backroads ben anderson carolyn sakowski 9780895876935 9780895875594 US $19.95 Trade Paper US $19.95 Trade Paper 272 Pages 320 Pages 8” x 8” 9” x 6” E-book available E-book available

28 travel / guidebooks The Best Hikes of Pisgah Fishing North Carolina National Forest mike marsh c. franklin goldsmith, 9780895873965 ii, shannon e. g. US $19.95 Trade Paper hamrick, h. james 352 Pages hamrick, jr. 9780895871909 9” x 6” US $16.95 Trade Paper E-book available 164 Pages 7” x 5” E-book available

Trails of the Triangle Touring the Shenandoah allen de hart Valley Backroads andrea sutcliffe 9780895873491 US $17.95 Trade Paper 9780895873866 299 Pages US $19.95 Trade Paper 8.5” x 5.5” 272 Pages 9” x 6” E-book available

Jugtown Pottery 1917- A Guide to the Crooked 2017 Road stephen c. compton joe wilson 9780895876720 9780895873279 US $35.00 US $19.95 Trade Paper Hardcover with dust jacket 256 Pages 288 Pages 10” x 6” 8.5” x 9.5”

Vanishing Landmarks Unearthing Seeds of Fire of Georgia frank adams joseph kovarik 9780895870193 9780895876706 US $15.95 Trade Paper US $19.95 Trade Paper 255 Pages 176 Pages 9” x 6” 8.5” x 8.5”

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Cumberland Island Boys of the Battleship charles seabrook North Carolina 9780895873057 cindy horrell ramsey US $19.95 Trade Paper 9780895873392 373 Pages US $24.95 Trade Paper 9” x 6” 304 Pages E-book available 9” x 6” E-book available

Pirates, Ghosts, and Outer Banks Mysteries & Coastal Lore Seaside Stories charles harry charles harry whedbee whedbee bestseller 9780895870063 9780895872951 US $16.95 US $16.95 Hardcover with dust jacket Hardcover with dust jacket 133 Pages 157 Pages 7.75” x 5” 7.75” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Outer Banks Tales to Legends of the Outer Banks Remember and Tar Heel Tidewater charles harry charles harry whedbee whedbee 9780910244411 9780895870445 US $16.95 US $16.95 Hardcover with dust jacket Hardcover with dust jacket 165 Pages 133 Pages 7.75” x 5” 7.75” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Blackbeard’s Cup and The Flaming Ship of Stories of the Outer Banks Ocracoke & Other Tales of charles harry the Outer Banks whedbee charles harry 9780895870704 whedbee US $16.95 9780910244619 Hardcover with dust jacket US $14.95 175 Pages Hardcover with dust jacket 7.5” x 5” 153 Pages E-book available 7.75” x 5” E-book available

30 coastal Voices from the Outer Blackbeard the Pirate Banks robert e. lee stephen kirk 9780895870322 9780895876447 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $12.95 Trade Paper 264 Pages 256 Pages 9” x 6” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Ocracoke Blackbeard and Other carl goerch Pirates of the Atlantic 9780895870315 Coast US $16.95 Trade Paper nancy roberts 222 Pages 9781949467185 8.5” x 5.5” US $18.95 E-book available Trade Paper 204 Pages 9” x 6”

Ocracoke in the Fifties Hatteras Journal ashley and john jan deblieu oglivie 9780895872142 9780895873224 US $16.95 Trade Paper US $19.95 Trade Paper 232 Pages 112 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” 9” x 7” E-book available

First in Flight The Wild Horses of stephen kirk Shackleford Banks carmine priolo 9780895871275 US $16.95 Trade Paper 9780895873347 341 Pages US $16.95 Trade Paper 8.5” x 5.5” 144 Pages E-book available 9.25” x 7.25” E-book available

31 coastal Voices from St. Simons stephen doster 9780895873576 US $16.95 Trade Paper 259 Pages 7.5” x 5” E-book available

legends / folklore Haints of the Hills Piedmont Phantoms daniel w. barefoot daniel w. barefoot 9781949467154 9781949467147 US $12.95 Trade Paper US $12.95 Trade Paper 200 Pages 200 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” 8.5” x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

Seaside Spectres North Carolina Ghost daniel w. barefoot Lights and Legends charles f. gritzner bestseller bestseller 9781949467178 US $12.95 Trade Paper 9781949467055 200 Pages US $15.95 Trade Paper 8.5” x 5.5” 192 Pages E-book available 7.25” x 5” E-book available

The Hauntings of The Granny Curse Williamsburg, Yorktown, randy russell and and Jamestown janet barnett jackie eileen behrend 9780895871855 9780895872104 US $12.95 Trade Paper US $13.95 Trade Paper 146 Pages 192 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” 8” x 5” E-book available E-book available

32 legends / folklore Ghost Dogs of the South Ghost Cats of the South randy russell and randy russell janet barnett bestseller bestseller 9780895875570 9780895872883 US $12.95 Trade Paper US $15.95 Trade Paper 266 Pages 287 Pages 7.5” x 5” 7.5” x 5” E-book available E-book available

Tales of the South More Tales of the South Carolina Low Country Carolina Low Country nancy rhyne nancy rhyne 9780895870278 9780895870421 US $9.95 Trade Paper US $9.95 Trade Paper 93 Pages 121 Pages 8” x 5” 8” x 5”

Mountain Ghost Stories Ghosts of Georgetown randy russell and elizabeth robertson janet barnett huntsinger bestseller 9780895871220 US $15.95 Trade Paper 9780895870643 144 Pages US $14.95 8” x 5” Hardcover with dust jacket E-book available 109 Pages 8” x 5.5” E-book available

Ghosts of the Southern Haunted Inns of the Tennessee Valley Southeast georgiana c. kotarski sheila turnage 9780895873262 9780895872340 US $17.95 Trade Paper US $12.95 Trade Paper 217 Pages 228 Pages 8” x 5” 8.5” x 5.5” E-book available

33 legends / folklore Georgetown Mysteries Ghosts and Haunts of and Legends Tennessee elizabeth huntsinger christopher k. wolf coleman 9780895873408 9780895873897 US $11.95 Trade Paper US $12.95 Trade Paper 141 Pages 200 Pages 8” x 5.25” 8.5” x 5.5” E-book available E-book available

Georgia Ghosts nancy roberts 9780895871725 US $14.95 Trade Paper 267 Pages 7.5” x 5”

food / drink Bob Garner’s Book of A Guide to North Barbecue Carolina’s Wineries bob garner joseph mills and 9780895875747 danielle tarmey US $24.95 9780895873422 Hardcover with dust jacket US $16.95 Trade Paper 400 Pages 309 Pages 9” x 7” 9” x 6” E-book available E-book available

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Well Shut My Mouth Soul Food Odyssey stephanie l. tyson stephanie l. tyson 9780895875471 9780895876461 $21.95 US Trade Paper US $19.95 Trade Paper 238 Pages 167 Pages 8.5” x 6” 8.5” x 6” E-book available E-book available

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Still & Barrel North Carolina Craft john francis trump Beer & Breweries 9780895876836 erik lars myers and $19.95 US Trade Paper sarah h. ficke 208 Pages 9780895876621 8.5” x 6” US $19.95 Trade Paper E-book available 480 Pages 8.5” x 5.5” E-book available children’s The North Carolina The Little Turkle Alphabet deborah van dyken pamela george and illustrations by walter brown susan mason 9780932112507 bestseller US $16.95 Trade Paper 9781949467048 64 Pages US $16.95 10.75” x 8.5” Harcover Picture Book 32 Pages 8.5” x 11” pop culture The Andy Griffith Show Mayberry 101 richard kelly neal brower 9780895870438 9780895872180 US $19.95 Trade Paper US $27.95 Trade Paper 286 Pages 507 Pages 8” x 5.5” 9” x 6” E-book available E-book available

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Black Indian Slave Narratives Southeast 17, 26 Cherokee Voices Southeast 25 Far More Terrible for Women Southeast 16, 25 Footsteps of the Cherokees Southeast 26 Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers Southeast 18 Ghost Cats of the South Southeast 33 Ghost Dogs of the South Southeast 33 Haunted Inns of the Southeast Southeast 33 Little Turkle, Th e Southeast 35 c Step into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia Southeast 18 m Voices of Cherokee Women Southeast 25 Well Shut My Mouth Southeast 15, 34 All the Songs We Sing NC 14, 22 Andy Griffi th Show NC 35 Bearwallow NC 8 m Best Hikes of Pisgah National Forest, Th e NC 29 m Blackbeard and Other Pirates NC 31 c Blackbeard the Pirate NC 31 c Blackbeard’s Cup NC 30 c Bob Garner’s Book of Barbecue NC 34 Boys of the Battleship NC NC 30 c Bushwhackers NC 28 m Cape Fear Rising NC 16, 19 c Exploring North Carolina’s Lookout Towers NC 9 m Fight Songs NC, AL 7 36 mountains/ title interest page coastal

First in Flight NC 31 c Fishing North Carolina NC 29 Flaming Ship of Ocracoke, Th e NC 30 c Foods Th at Make You Say Mmm-mmm NC 34 Great Waterfalls of North Carolina NC 28 m Guide to North Carolina Wineries, A NC 34 Haints of the Hills NC 32 m Hatteras Journal NC 31 c Indecent Assembly NC 26 Ironclads and Columbiads NC 28 c Jugtown Pottery 1917-2017 NC 29 Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tide Water NC 30 c Mayberry 101 NC 35 Mountain Ghost Stories NC 33 m My C.C.C. Days NC 27 m My Folks Don’t Want Me To Talk About Slavery NC 17, 24 North Carolina Alphabet Book, Th e NC 35 North Carolina Craft Beers & Breweries NC 35 North Carolina Ghost Lights and Legends NC 32 North Carolina Waterfalls NC 28 m Ocracoke NC 31 c Ocracoke in the Fifties NC 31 c Outer Banks Mysteries and Seaside Stories NC 30 c Outer Banks Tales to Remember NC 30 c Piedmont Phantoms NC 32 m 37 mountains/ title interest page coastal

Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore NC 30 c Seaside Spectres NC 32 c Silk Flags and Cold Steel NC 28 Smokies Chronicle NC 28 m Soul Food Odyssey NC 15, 34 Still & Barrel NC 35 Tales From a Free Range Childhood NC 19 To Drink from the Well NC 6 Touring the Western NC Backroads NC 28 m Trails of the Triangle NC 29 Voices From the Outer Banks NC 31 c Voices From the Trail of Tears NC 25 Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas NC, SC 27 Wild Geese Flying NC 11 c Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks NC 31 c Winston-Salem: A History NC 28 Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice NC 18 Before Freedom When I Just Can Remember SC 17, 24 Georgetown Mysteries and Legends SC 34 Ghosts of Georgetown SC 33 Life of General Francis Marion SC 27 More Tales of the South Carolina Low Country SC 33 Tales of the South Carolina Low Country SC 33 Arlington VA, D C 27 Gullah Culture in America Southeast 16, 26 c 38 mountains/ title interest page coastal

Gullah Days Southeast 14, 17, 26 c Guide to the Crooked Road, A VA 29 Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown, Th e VA 32 Jamestown Adventure, Th e VA 27 Orlean Puckett VA, NC 18 m So You Th ink You Know Antietam? VA,DC 27 Th is African-American Life VA,DC 16, 18 Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads VA 29 We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard VA 17, 24 Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee TN 34 Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley TN 33 Granny Curse, Th e TN 32 m Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You TN 17, 25 Unearthing Seeds of Fire TN 29 Cumberland Island GA 30 c Georgia Ghosts GA 34 On Jordan’s Stormy Banks GA 17, 25 Vanishing Landmarks of Georgia GA 29 Voices from St. Simons GA 32 Chained to the Land LA 16, 24 Witness to Change LA 14, 18 Bullets and Bandages PA 26 So You Th ink You Know Gettysburg? PA 27 So You Th ink You Know Gettysburg? Vol. 2 PA 27 Prayin’ To Be Set Free MS 25 39 mountains/ title interest page coastal

No Man’s Yoke on My Shoulders FL 26 Weren’t No Good Times AL 16, 26 I Was Born in Slavery TX 16, 25 Any Other Place Fiction 19 m Baddest Girl on the Planet, Th e Fiction 12 c Beaut Fiction 19 Blue Marlin Fiction 19 Cherokee Rose, Th e Fiction 15, 20 Clay’s Quilt Fiction 13 m Coal Tattoo, Th e Fiction 13 m Dark of the Island, Th e Fiction 20 c Drunken Spelunker’s Guide to Plato Fiction 20 Falling Star, A Fiction 21 Ghost Riders Fiction 21 Gods of Green County, Th e Fiction 5 Hands of Strangers, Th e Fiction 20 Hatteras Light Fiction 21 c Hola and Goodbye Fiction 21 Holding On To Nothing Fiction 19 Ice Garden, Th e Fiction 21 Midnight Bowling Fiction 21 Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Th e Fiction 20 Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time Th e Fiction 20 Mulberry Fiction 15, 20 Once in a Blue Moon Fiction 20 40 mountains/ title interest page coastal

Parchment of Leaves, A Fiction 13 m Rules for Being Dead Fiction 12 Useful Phrases for Immigrants Fiction 19 What Makes You Th ink You’re Awake? Fiction 4 All We Know of Pleasure Poetry 22 and Aeneas stares into her helmet Poetry 24 Binary Stars Poetry 23 Book of Ystwyth, Th e Poetry 24 Breath of the Song Poetry 15, 22 Conjure Blues Poetry 16, 22 Crowns of Charlotte Poetry 23 Dead on Arrival Poetry 22 Future of Black, Th e Poetry 3, 14 Geography of Jazz, Th e Poetry 22 half-red sea, a Poetry 15, 23 Inside the Money Machine Poetry 23 Little Domesday Clock Poetry 22 Living Above the Frost Line Poetry 23 Matching Skin Poetry 15, 23 Punish Honey Poetry 23 Sacrilegion Poetry 15, 22 Startling Poetry 24 What Else Could It Be Poetry 23 Woodsmoke Poetry 8 m All Eyes Bio-Memoir 18 41 mountains/ title interest page coastal

Losing My Sister Bio-Memoir 18 What If Wilhelmina Children’s 11 COVID Helpers Children’s 10 Helping Our World Get Well Children’s 10

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